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<h2>PHPMailer FAQ</h2>
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	<li><b style="background-color: #FFFF00">Q:</b> <b>I&#039;m
	using the SMTP mailer and I keep on getting a timeout message well
	before the X seconds I set it for. What gives?</b><br />
	<b style="background-color: #FFFF00">A:</b> PHP versions 4.0.4pl1 and
	earlier have a bug in which sockets timeout early. You can fix this by
	re-compiling PHP 4.0.4pl1 with this fix: <a href="timeoutfix.diff">timeoutfix.diff</a>.
	Otherwise you can wait for the new PHP release.<br />
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	<li><b style="background-color: #FFFF00">Q:</b> <b>I am
	concerned that using include files will take up too much processing
	time on my computer. How can I make it run faster?</b><br />
	<b style="background-color: #FFFF00">A:</b> PHP by itself is very fast.
	Much faster than ASP or JSP running on the same type of server. This is
	because it has very little overhead compared to its competitors and it
	pre-compiles all of its code before it runs each script (in PHP4).
	However, all of this compiling and re-compiling can take up a lot of
	valuable computer resources. However, there are programs out there that
	compile PHP code and store it in memory (or on mmaped files) to reduce
	the processing immensely. Two of these: <a
		href="http://apc.communityconnect.com">APC (Alternative PHP Cache)</a>
	and <a href="http://bwcache.bware.it/index.htm">Afterburner</a> (<a
		href="http://www.mm4.de/php4win/mod_php4_win32/">Win32 download</a>)
	are excellent free tools that do just this. If you have the money you
	might also try <a href="http://www.zend.com">Zend Cache</a>, it is even
	faster than the open source varieties. All of these tools make your
	scripts run faster while also reducing the load on your server. I have
	tried them myself and they are quite stable too.<br />
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	<li><b style="background-color: #FFFF00">Q:</b> <b>What mailer
	gives me the best performance?</b><br />
	<b style="background-color: #FFFF00">A:</b> On a single machine the <b>sendmail
	(or Qmail)</b> is fastest overall. Next fastest is mail() to give you the
	best performance. Both do not have the overhead of SMTP. If you have
	you have your mail server on a another machine then SMTP is your only
	option, but you do get the benefit of redundant mail servers.<br />
	If you are running a mailing list with thousands of names, the fastest
	mailers in order are: SMTP, sendmail (or Qmail), mail().<br />
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	<li><b style="background-color: #FFFF00">Q:</b> <b>When I try
	to attach a file with on my server I get a "Could not find {file} on
	filesystem error". Why is this?</b><br />
	<b style="background-color: #FFFF00">A:</b> If you are using a Unix
	machine this is probably because the user running your web server does
	not have read access to the directory in question. If you are using
	Windows, then the problem probably is that you have used single
	backslashes to denote directories (\). A single backslash has a special
	meaning to PHP so these are not valid. Instead use double backslashes
	("\\") or a single forward slash ("/").<br />
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